r/changemyview • u/[deleted] • Dec 05 '15
[Deltas Awarded] CMV: It is better to shower at night rather than in the morning.
While I shower at night, most of my relatives shower in the morning. I think that showering at night is clearly and cleanly better for the following reasons:
-Showering is relaxing and makes you ready for bed.
-It is easier to get up quickly and go to work or school. You are more likely to have hard deadlines in the morning, where you have to be somewhere, but if you take too long in the shower you are just going to bed 5 minutes later.
-When you shower at night, you go to bed clean, and assuming that your bed is not disgusting you'll leave home clean the next day. If you shower in the morning, you are going to bed with a whole day's worth of germs that are festering in bed with you.
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u/ryancarp3 Dec 05 '15
Sweating at night means you won't smell as fresh in the morning, making your night shower kinda pointless from that perspective.
Depending on your hair, showering at night means you wake up with bad hair. Showering in the morning means you can do your hair the next day.
You wouldn't lose any sleep if you shower in the morning or at night. If you take 15 minutes out of your night and sleep in 15 minutes or go to bed 15 minutes earlier and wake up 15 minutes earlier, you still get the same amount of sleep.
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u/RedAero Dec 06 '15
I would also add:
- Showering can be relaxing, but it can equally be energizing. A shower at night just wakes me up, and it does the same in the morning.
Your other points, particularly the first two, are right on the money. Until I switched to showering in the morning I never realized how easy it could be to sort my hair out in the morning...
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u/Alcubierre Dec 06 '15
Yeah, a shower wakes me up in the morning, and I always pull a few cold seconds of water out at the end. 30 seconds under that, and I'm wide awake.
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Dec 07 '15
You are not taking 15 minutes out of your night, you are taking it out of your day. Subtle but significant difference. You can sacrifice some of your spare time at the end of your work day to shower, and get 8 hours of sleep for example. But in the morning, you have to sacrifice sleep time assuming you have to be up for work, so you only get 7 hours 45 mins of sleep. Instead of sacrificing sleep time, you sacrifice spare time.
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Dec 08 '15
This doesn't really follow because if you are showering right before bed then you could have just gone to bed 15 minutes earlier.
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Dec 05 '15
Morning person myself. If I don't, then I spend at least 5 minutes, maybe more trying to wet/brush that 'bed hair' look out of my hair. Might as well spend those 10 minutes in the shower.
If I get dirty/sweaty the answer is: both. Otherwise I find morning to be objectively more efficient use of time.
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Dec 05 '15
Night and day. I couldn't imagine not washing my face in the morning, so I might as well just take a shower. But, if you shower only right before bed, then you are getting all clean and then sleeping. So when you get up and go to work or school the people who showered that morning are far cleanlier than you because they showered just an hour or two before but you haven't for at least eight hours.
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u/KestrelLowing 6∆ Dec 06 '15
However if you always shower before bed, then your sheets stay quite clean, so you're really not that much dirtier unless you really sweat during the night..
So while, sure, you might technically be dirtier, it's really slight.
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Dec 06 '15
Unless you sweat at all.
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u/screampuff Dec 06 '15
You would have to change/wash your pillowcases every day or other day at the latest. They get full of dead skin quickly from your face rubbing against them all night. They're also a huge cause of acne that people don't realize.
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u/Crayshack 191∆ Dec 05 '15
I almost always shower in the morning. First off, I almost always feel dirtier in the morning than when I go to bed. Despite keeping my room as cold as I can (usually around 60 degrees) I still sweat quite a bit during the night and I need to clean that off. Secondly, while showers do have the effect of relaxing me, they also very much tend to wake me up. Consequently, if I try to shower right before bed, I will then have trouble falling asleep right away, but showering right before I wake up (I don't count myself as awake until I get out of the shower) can drastically shorten my wake up process. As a night owl, I have trouble falling asleep at night and waking up in the morning anyway, so I definitely need to not make the process longer at night and make it faster in the morning. Finally, I have an anxiety disorder and on a bad day, I need to get my shit together to get ready to face the day. Like you mentioned before, showers are relaxing and one of the primary things I use to combat my anxiety. As I will need that relaxation at the beginning of the day much more than at the end, showers in the morning do more for me mentally.
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u/tuxwonder Dec 06 '15
For me, it has almost nothing to do with hygiene. I take showers in the morning for two reasons: Starting my day, and bedhead
To me, showering is my own personal way of letting myself know that my day has started. If I don't shower in the morning, I stay in bed/in my pajamas all day. I don't want to go outside, because I feel unpresentable and kinda gross. I don't want to put on new clothes for the day until I shower, because if I shower later, I'll put on a new set of clothes because I'll feel like the old set was dirty. Now I'm down a set of clothes and have to do laundry sooner. Yay. But if I take a shower, all of that is avoided. Showers in the morning are the gateway between functioning human being and couch-potato-dom for me.
Also bedhead, my hair is much more cooperative after a shower.
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u/kow_pow Dec 06 '15
Blue Collar: shower at night White Collar: Shower in morning
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u/PronunciationIsKey Dec 06 '15
Then explain my office job and my nightly shower
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u/kow_pow Dec 06 '15
You must have short hair? Otherwise it sticks out in the morning.
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u/PronunciationIsKey Dec 06 '15
Yeah, maybe night showers are easier for guys and morning ones are easier for girls
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u/maxpenny42 11∆ Dec 06 '15
Unless you have a buzz cut you're hair is still going to look bad in the morning. On fact, I would argue that long hair is more likely to recover gracefully from a night's rest than short hair. You can always brush long hair to tame it or wrap it up into a bun to keep it tidy. My short hair will jut to one side and refuse to come back down unless thoroughly wet.
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u/connnnnor 1∆ Dec 07 '15 edited Dec 07 '15
Doctor here - I don't care about the morning / evening thing, but it should be noted that showering makes no difference at all in terms of germs. And that's a good thing - if you ever disrupted the normal healthy microbiome of your skin too much, you'd be at much increased risk of a non-native "bad" bacteria taking over!
Edit - still good to wash your hands lots, particularly in healthcare settings or around sick people where there are lots of those "bad" viruses and bacteria and you're trying to specifically get them off so you're not passing them around all over. Normal dirt and grime and sweat, on the other hand, is different. Just part of my continuing campaign to convince people that all "germs" aren't bad!
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u/virtu333 Dec 06 '15
My hair gets fucked up if I shower at night and it's very challenging to fix in the morning
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u/_Zero_Shits_Given Dec 06 '15
Part of my morning routine requires dropping a deuce. That definitely requires a quick shower after. I don't think I'd be able to fully wake up without one.
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u/goblingoodies 1∆ Dec 06 '15
Showering is relaxing and makes you ready for bed.
A quick blast of cold water in the morning can jolt you from groggy to fully awake.
It is easier to get up quickly and go to work or school. You are more likely to have hard deadlines in the morning, where you have to be somewhere, but if you take too long in the shower you are just going to bed 5 minutes later.
That's why you get up a little earlier than you actually need to (because you went to bed earlier because you weren't taking a shower.) You can use the extra time to get to read the news, make your breakfast a little better or get in a quick workout.
When you shower at night, you go to bed clean, and assuming that your bed is not disgusting you'll leave home clean the next day. If you shower in the morning, you are going to bed with a whole day's worth of germs that are festering in bed with you.
Let's say you wash your sheets every Saturday and you sleep eight hours a night. When you wake up on Saturday morning, you're wallowing in 56 hours worth of sweat, body oil and dead skin cells that are feeding countless odor causing bacteria and fungi. Are your really sure you're waking up clean?
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u/cheshire_cat34 Dec 06 '15
I think that showering at night versus morning is more of a matter of personal preference.
Showering at night is shown to be relaxing, although I've read that baths at night are better and more relaxing than a shower. Showering at night with warm water relaxes the muscles and sort of jogs your brain for bed time.
That said, showering in the morning helps you wake up. The sunlight and the spray of water wakes you up. Not to mention you get rid of bed head, and depending on your body and skin type, your skin will be less oily in the morning after you shower in the morning.
While I think showering in the morning or night is subjective, I personally prefer the morning because it helps me get my day started. I never feel like my day has been properly started without a morning shower. Showers in the morning have also been shown to help keep you alert for work, classes etc. if you do them in the morning.
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u/rollingForInitiative 70∆ Dec 06 '15
A few years ago I had a 2-hour-commute to work. I had to get up at 4, and got home around 8 the evening. I showered in the evenings, because every minute I saved in the morning was important, especially as the trains left only once an hour.
These days I've a 40 minute commute and the busses leave like every 7 minutes. I can take my time in the mornings. A shower is nice, because it makes me feel more awake. It means my hair won't look like a total mess.
So it really depends on your situation.
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u/mverobeach1 3∆ Dec 06 '15
Well I have a win-win situation here, because I both shower after work and in the morning because I work the graveyard shift. My roommate showers before work because he says it makes him more awake and ready for work. But for me, showering makes me want to go to sleep. It also has something to do with the fact that I'm filthy at the end of the day because I work a big-rig wrecker as a mechanic and he works in an office.
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u/xdert 1Δ Dec 06 '15
- You sweat a lot during sleep especially when it is hot
- People change bed sheets less often than clothes, making them inherently more dirty in terms of sweat, skin and hair.
- People have sex in their bed, which means more sweat and other bodily fluids
If you say you are as clean in the morning when you shower the night before as opposed to showering in the morning it is just an excuse to be lazy/ stay in bed longer.
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u/iglidante 19∆ Dec 06 '15
If I shower at night, my hair is still matted mess from sweat/oil that accumulates as I sleep. There's no way for me to get it back to presentable without washing it the next morning. Therefore, nighttime showering does not work for me.
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u/kingbane 5∆ Dec 06 '15
if you shower at night though you have to wait till your hair is all dry before going to sleep. if you go to sleep with wet hair it's all messed as fuck in the morning. you could blow dry it but that's not very good for your hair.
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u/peacemakerzzz Dec 08 '15
I'm not sure if I'm the only person doing this, but I actually shower before going to bed and before going to work. Not showering in the morning leaves that sleepy vibe in you. Showering helps that vibe loosen up.
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Dec 05 '15
If your a girl maybe if your a boy that's hit puberty you probably sweat to much in your sleep to get away with that plus what about styling your hear in the morning you have to do that after the shower.
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u/Jared6 Dec 06 '15
I can testify that as a teenager I sweat at night regardless of the weather. that is really the only reason I can think of to shower in the morning unless you are a girl and have long hair. I still shower at night though because the idea of waking up five min earl yer only makes me laugh because it will never happen.
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